Diridon: Trump’s military dictatorship foiled by top military leaders - San José Spotlight

Any crackpot, Third World dictator could have told President Trump the military was needed for a successful coup d’état.

Looking back, Trump’s administration removed the USS Theodore Roosevelt’s courageous Capt. Brett Crozier for standing up for his COVID-19 ravaged crew. Trump incessantly and crudely, criticized war hero and distinguished statesman John McCain even while the senator was on his deathbed. Trump made serving the nation so uncomfortable that Marine Gens. John Kelly and James Mattis, both proven top administrators and honorable men, found it necessary to resign their Cabinet-level posts.

He went from bad to worse. Trump denigrated our fallen WWII heroes as “suckers and losers” when he refused to visit the D-Day ceremony at the French military cemetery for the 1,800 Marines killed while holding the line that saved Paris during WWI at Belleau Wood. Then the military’s official investigation of Capt. Crozier recommended that he be reinstated to his command. But after checking with Trump, his Secretary of Defense required another investigation terminating the captain’s reinstatement.

Then Trump mobilized the national military to take over Washington, D.C., and Portland, Oregon, and threatened the same with other Democrat-led cities during recent Black Lives Matter demonstrations. That unprecedented use of the national military against primarily peacefully demonstrating U.S. citizens, without the consent of local authorities, is unconstitutional.